STRANGE SAD TRAGEDY.

Shannon News, 30 December 1924, Page 3

STRANGE SAD TRAGEDY.

GIRL AND MAN DIE TOGETHER. INVERCARGILL, Last Night. An inquest into, the circumstances surrounding the deaths of Mary Ann McKenzie (14) and Andrew Sydney Sands (23), whose bodies were found in the Dunsdale stream on Sunday, ■was conducted at Hedgehope to-day. Mary McKenzie, mother ,of the deceased girl, said her daughter left home on the evening o'f December 13, after beins chastised, on her return from a message to Sands. Ambrose Jesse Sands, said the. girl stopped at his house on December 13 and also on December 14. On the following morning she left the house at about 7 o’clock, accompanied by his son, and neither was seen again until the bodies were recovered. William Hocking, farmer, said he was strolling along the banks of the Dunsdale stream on Sunday afternoon, when he saw two bodies lying in about 12 inches of water. He at once advised the police. Adam Kerse, police constable, said he proceeded to Dunedale on receipt of a message from the previous witness and recovered the bodies.

Sands’ arms were around the girl, and his wrists Avere tied together Avith a piece of her dress. The bodies were in that position when discovered. The verdict was that the deceased Mary Ann McKenzie and Andrew Sydney Sands committed suicide by drowning in the Dunsdale stream~at Hedgehope, between December 16 and 18.

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